Anocovax: India's first Covid-19 Vaccine for Animals

• 11 Jun 2022

Anocovax is the first Indian Covid-19 vaccine for animals.

• It has been developed by Haryana's ICAR-National Research Centre on Equines.
• Anocovax vaccine is safe for dogs, lions, leopards, mice and rabbits and offers protection against both Delta and Omicron.
• The institute also launched antibody detection kits for animals.
• The vaccine is an inactivated SARS-Cov-2 Delta (Covid-19) vaccine. It also contains Alhydrogel as an adjuvant.
• In April 2021, Russia became the first country in the world to register a vaccine for animals (Carnivac-Cov) against COVID-19.